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View to the south of Highway 14 road cut that transects the San Andreas fault zone. In this area, the displacement is not confined to a single fracture but is distributed throughout the zone, and includes many folds as well as several faults. Two subsidiary faults offset the layers and form the "two legs" of a triangle. Image Credit: Clifford E. Harwood. Encino, California January 17, 1994 Northridge USA earthquake At 4:31 am local time (12:31 GMT) on Monday, January 17, 1994, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake twenty miles west northwest of downtown Los Angeles awoke nearly everyone in southern California. Damage was most extensive in the San Fernando Valley, the Simi Valley, and in the northern part of the Los Angeles Basin. It took 57 lives and caused $10 billion in property damage. This set depicts the damage in Northridge the epicentral area. Event Data:
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